Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
The School Board Before the city Council.
To the CHRONICLE;

40 tne CHRONICLE
Again ask place In your valuable paper
As the article OF the School Board had sucl
extensive publication, and mine occupied ,
rather unobtrusive part OF the CHRONICLE,
VIII state FOR the benefit OF those who did no
sec II That showed, among other things, tina
the erection OF additional school building,
could DC avoided by separation Of the city
and district schoois; that OF ss,lOo raised by
taxation the district furnished only $500
leaving $500 for the city, to which 81 600 nd.
ditional had been given by the City Council
tnat allowing sll Instead OF Sg, the present
cost OF tuition, aud $3.50 for general expenses
500 more than necessary, and there would
still be saving over the present system OF
81. $50, and $50 over the amount raised by tax
alton alone; also that the district haa no su.
perior claims upon us and that the time for
separation had come.
The article should be read in full 10 be an.
preciated. To this the School Board made a
reply which they were determined to have
heard. They first fired IL point blank at the
City Council Wednesday evening, June lst.
Then they drew off and Thursday evening
opened fire at long range through the Demo-
Graf. Friday morning they blaEed away
through the Tobacco Leaf, and Friday even
ing again let fly through the columns OF the
Clarksville CHRONICLE.
This article was read before the City Coun-
Gil bv the three commissioners for the Twelfth
District, accompanied by demand from
them for an additional building. 1t seems TO
me that modesty would have suggested that
demand for city building to be erected at
the city's expense should be made by the
City Commissioners But modesty seems TO
be rather neglected In the Twelfth District.
or the City Treasury is not regarded as a
proper object upon which to exercise 1t. And
effrontery il mild term for the action OF the
representatives OF n district which furnished
only $1,000 for its education, in telling the
City Council that $3.50, and, by Inference, also
the $1,000 additional voted the past session,
and the expense OF an additional building
was pitiful sum. 1t reminded me of a
passage relating to casting pearls before GER
tain animsls.
The article opens with accusing me of de.
sire to prejudice the public mind against the
erect on Of additional buildings, OF making a
varied, curious and unique collection of er.
roneous statements, and promises TO refute
me completely and everlastingly. now aud
forever. Garondus seemed doomed But the
article did not attain to the promise of the be-
ginning and so Garoudus is still 80 AS to be
about; thank you" fby the first accusation
It Is meant that am decidedly opposed to the
wasting OF large amount yearly and TO The |
erection of building which would be of no |
earthly use except for the accommodation Of
beg to plead guilty TO the gentle |
charge. In regard TO the second, II my article
was such mass oferrors, how was 1t that the
combined intelligence OF the whole Board |
could not attack or deny It's statements
The whole article OF the Board was an evasion |
Of the issue; and I now desire TO extend n
cordial invitation to any OF it's members to |
snow that any statement of mine was incor- |
rect either In itself Or IN relation to any other
Iact
Will now ask the Board to dlsproye the
following facts to the City Council or admit
hem: That 1t intends to ask for an addi-
ional $1,000 or more yearly from the City
treasury; that not only that $1,000, but also a
amount from taxation could be
ayed by separations; that the proposed
building would be OF no use whatever for city
purposes In the event of separation.
i VIII answer few of the evasions OF the
'oard, although they are SO transparent any
Intelligent man can readily see through
hem.
The article opens with an exhibition of ig.
torrance which Is most surprising for School
3oard. Or does the Board intend to deceive.
n such desperate straits are they for argu-
nentsf The statement referred to is that the
ity would have to bear the burden OF the dis
rict's expenses II the separation were made.
would he waste OF time to argue this, as the
ity would then have no more to do with the
'welfth District than with the Nineteenth.
But the Board threatens us with general
xodus OF mechanics and laborers from the
'weifth District II the separation is made,
nd descants on the advantage OF population
0 city, clinching the argument with the as
ertion that buildings eat no groceries and
rear no clothes. will candidly admit facts.
the Board will not, and will not deny that {
city would be ia bad condition without
opulasion; and also that l never saw n I
uiiding eat single grocery or wear any
lothes, except those articles sometimes worn
3 ornaments In windows. But the Board
cts rather tangled In Its argument on the (
lbject of population. II asserts that me-
hanics living outside the city will leave, and !
lies TO make IL appear that this would be
ecrease OF the city's population. Well. II
1ey remove to a city they are certainly not
from one. A citizen OF the Twelfth
istriot is NO more an inhabitant OF Clarks. q
lille than citizen OF the Thirteenth
istrict, and II every mechanic In the
welfth District were to leave It would | G
OF decrease the city's population q single
'ul or its revenue single cent. Ia
Is the demand made upon us that persons
no live outside the limits OF the city, and
no are making their living of Its inhabit- s
nts, shall also be educated mostly at the h
tys expense, under the threat OF ceasinR 10 {,
We anywhere near usr Well, the Ameri. !,
IN mind Is getting rather tired OF subsidies, .
nd II we have to pay for services rendered :,
I'D in addition $50 or more yearly besides y
ie expense OF bnilding In order to get .
eighbors, we had better have a smaller num-
n OF them. The farmers will be wanting n
lbsidy from us next.
II the Twelfth District is going to remove 70
city, as the Board says, we cordially invite 6
to come TO Clarksville. What we want Is IL
creased population. The School Board IA v
wiling for II, the children are crying for Il. q
nd yet under our present systeu va are o